Check-hook



H. W. BURRESS. CHECK HOOK.

N6. 556,661. Patented Mal. 1'7, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEi'cE.

HENRY \V. BURRESS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHECK-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,661, dated March 17, 1896.

Application filed June 30,1392. Serial No. 438,593. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY W. BUnnEss, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Gheckrein Connection to Harness-Saddles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a connection more especially for an overhead, although applicable to a side, checkrein to a harnesssaddle, and said connection consists in substance of a T-bar and a cross arm or piece, in which, preferably, the leg of said T-bar is swiveled and which is suitably held on the checkrein, in combination with a block suitably adapted to be fastened on the harness-saddle and hav ing in its upper portion a T-way suitably located and otherwise adapted to receive and to act as a seat for the cross-head and the adjoining leg portion of the T-bar, and to allow said cross-head to turn, but otherwise to hold it against movement therein and escape therefrom, the latter being preferably insured by means of a spring suitably applied to the said block and adapted to yield for the T-bar to be entered into and removed from said T-way of said block when desired, but otherwise to act as a practical resistant to the accidental escape of the T-bar from said T-way.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the invention is illustrated.

Figure 1 is a side view in the most prefen able form of the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, Fig. 1. Fig. is a side view in detail, as will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings, A A is a T-bar, A being the cross-head and A the leg, and both cylindrical.

B is a cross arm or piece receiving and having the free end of the leg A of the T-bar swiveled in it and therein held again st escape, as particularly shown, by projecting its said end from the crossarm and upsetting or shouldcring its said projection.

The cross-arm B is placed in the looped end C of the checkrein 0 (shown in dotted lines, but only at one end) and the leg A of the T-bar lies in a hole C of said looped end 0 obviously so that said cross-pin B and said T-bar are held on the chcckrein and the T-bar is free to swivel, as before explained.

D is a block adapted, by a headed screwbolt D and a screw-nut D, to be attached to a harness-saddle (not shown) as ordinary check-hooks are attached; but this invention is in no manner to be limited to this means of attachment, nor in fact to any means for that purpose, as the invention in no manner or respect pertains thereto.

E'E represent a T-way located in and at the upper side of said block D, and all so as to present its cross and leg portions E ,1 in directions respectively to receive the corresponding portions of the T-bar, attached to the checkrein, as explained, and also to make a seat for them having a shape suitable to permit said T-bar by its cross portion to turn more or less therein and preferably a depth suitable to prevent accidental escape of said bar therefrom.

Preferably and for insuring the retention of the T-bar in the T-way of the block D on the harness-saddle, while yet allowing said bar to be freely inserted in and removed from said way of said block an d as maybe desired, and Without otherwise obstructing movement of the T-bar in said T-way, a spring F is applied and secured to said block. This spring F is shaped to enter into and through a cut-- out G of the block located on its side opposite to that having the leg of the T-way and projecting from said cut-out to a greater or less extent inward and across and over the cross portion of the T-bar, which lies in the T-way, and preferably extending therefrom upward into a position to be the more easily handled.

A spring F, combined with the T-way of the block D held on the harness-saddle and the T-bar held on the checkrein, all substantially as described, obviously acts to hold the T-bar from accidental escape and to allow it to be freely inserted in and removed from said T-way as desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination, a block D to be attached to a harness-saddle and having a T-way E, E open on the upper side of the block, a T-bar block, and a spring F held on said block and at a bearing on the cross part A of said T- bar all as described for the purpose specified. V In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses HENRY BURRESS.

\Vitnesses:

MARION E. BROWN, MARY W. STORER. 

